Maria Sava Moise

Maria Sava Moise (1 June 1925-) was a Romanian Roma female Holocaust survivor.

Biography
Maria Sava Moise was born in Iasi, Moldavia, Romania on 1 June 1925 to a Roma family. Her father worked at several wineries and as a singer, and Maria and her siblings worked as grape-pickers to help provide for the family. In 1941, her father was drafted into the Romanian army to fight against the Soviet Union during World War II, but, a year later, the Romanian police rounded up Iasi's Romani and sent them eastward via cattle car. They were left in open fields in Transnistria to die slowly, with Moise's sister dying. However, her father's unit smuggled some of the Roma away in 1943, and she survived the rest of the Holocaust, settling in Iasi with her husband.